Safer, friendlier roads start with me
Freight moved via South Africa’s road infrastructure accounts for around 80% of total freight movement – and with Logistics Service Provider (LSP) vehicles being on the road 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the road freight industry plays a key role in improving road safety this festive period, says Abrie de Swardt, Marketing Director of IMPERIAL Logistics, in this month’s SmartProcurement.
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Open road tolling - logistics costs to rise by up to 15%
While there may be some uncertainty over the dates on which the tolling of Gauteng highways will begin under the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Plan (GFIP), the cost of refurbishing the roads makes it a certainty that the tolling will go ahead.
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6/10 fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa
Seismic shifts in the global economy, while posing many challenges should rather be seen to offer fresh prospects to businesses in South Africa who need to look no further than our own continent for expansion, Deputy Minister of Transport Jeremy Cronin told delegates at the recent Transport Forum in Paarl.
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Carbon emissions tax - another TCO cost element
Purchasing or Fleet Managers should not over-react to the carbon emissions tax on new vehicles, but should rather look at the tax’s impact on vehicle total cost of ownership (TCO), Ashleigh Young, Chief Executive of the TransAuto Group, tells SmartProcurement.
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Increasing Integration, Collaboration and Overall Supply Chain Efficiencies
Wayne Furness, Senior Vice-President Africa Region of end-to-end global logistics and supply chain management organisation UTi Worldwide, poses some questions on how effective organisational structure, end-to-end capabilities and appropriate measurement and reward systems, when applied to a logistics service provider (LSP) and client organisation, can make or break overall supply chain effectiveness.
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Timing of vehicle replacement essential to control a fleet's TCO
The timing of vehicle replacement can have a massive impact on an organisation’s fleet costs and ultimately the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the fleet, Ashleigh Young, General Manager at FleetCube tells SmartProcurement.
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Containing fleet management costs critical
Proper management of an organisation’s fleet is critical to control fleet costs in today’s economic environment, Ashleigh Young, General Manager of Fleetcube, tells SmartProcurement.
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The year of the CPO! Report back on the IPSA / CIPS annual conference
Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) have missed an opportunity to steer the global economy’s rescue boat, alluded Institute of Purchasing and Supply South Africa’s (IPSA’s) President, Karen van Vuuren, at the institute’s Annual Pan African Conference held at Emperor’s Palace in partnership with the Chartered institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS).
CIPS Director of International Development Chris Gallagher, CIPS President Dr Bola Afolabi, IPSA President Karen van Vuuren
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Courier Services Benchmarking Shows Up Rate Discrepancies
"Courier Services is a surprisingly complex spend category to manage as the devil (and delivery of savings!) is in the detail," benchmarker Purchasing Index (PI) MD Alan Low, told SmartProcurement. " We regularly benchmarks domestic courier rates across organisations from a variety of industry sectors...Posted by Editor at 9:30 AM | Comments (0)
Imperial Logistics Acquires 50% of supply chain consultancy Volition
Imperial Logistics and Volition Consulting Services (Volition) announced that Imperial Logistics will acquire 50% of Volition with effect from 1 July 2008, subject to approval from the Competitions Authority. Imperial Logistics and Volition will aim to improve their service offering whilst further increasing their footprint in the logistics and supply chain industry.Posted by StaffWriter at 9:38 AM | Comments (0)
"Open Book Costing" and "Cost Plus" can hamper Outsourced Logistics contracts.
The commercial agreement between the principal buyer and the service provider of outsourced logistics has far reaching, long term consequences for both parties. Cobus Rossouw of Volition shares some practical insights with Smart Procurement on how to extract the maximum value from your service provider....Posted by StaffWriter at 1:05 PM | Comments (0)
